[R] combine the data frames into comma separated list.

Dr. D. P. Kreil (Boku) David.Kreil at boku.ac.at
Tue Jun 14 02:57:39 CEST 2011


now that's beautiful! :-)

Many thanks,
David.


> Try this where DF1, DF2 and DF3 are the data frames:
>
> L <- list(DF1, DF2, DF3)
> merge.all <- function(...) merge(..., all = TRUE)
> Reduce(merge.all, lapply(L, function(x) aggregate(x[2], x[1], toString)))
>
> The last line gives this:
>
>  Src       Target1          Target2 Target3
> 1   1 aaa, bbb, ccc             <NA>      xx
> 2   2           aaa             aaaa    <NA>
> 3   3           ddd             dddd      yy
> 4   4          <NA> bbbb, eeee, ffff    <NA>
> 5   5          <NA>             <NA>      zz
> 6   6          <NA>             <NA>  tt, uu



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